Early baseball in Georgia/Club 23

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Location Georgia
Year 1871
Month 8
Modern address Fort Valley GA
City Fort Valley
State GA
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871, has a lengthy article on a game played the 18th at Oglethorpe between the “Fort Valley nine” and the Pastime of Oglethorpe, won by the latter 35-23.

Fort Valley GA (current population about 9800) is about 95 miles S of Atlanta and about 65 miles E of Columbus GA on the AL border.

Sources

Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871

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